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Moving email from one ISP to another.

Asked by wTinnel in Email Clients, Email Software, Perl Programming Language

Tags: email, from, move, another, isp

I need to move all my recieved messages from one ISP to another (gmail).

To make life easier I want the messages to appear just like they did before.
To clarify I want the Subject, Body and attachments to be the same.
I have tried forwarding them with Mozilla Thunderbird but the version I have (one of the newer ones) puts the body of the old message into an attachment. The same is true with my webmail client. Plus doing this by hand is labor intensive.

I would prefer a software solution since I have about 300 messages.
If nothing else exists to do this I am considering wirting my own progam to handle this.
The advantage would be I could fake the from address so that even the sender would not change, if I forward them I will be the sender on all of these.
The dis-advantage is TIME, I forgot to deal with this last month and this email account is scheduled to be terminated 12 days ago, I AM ON BORROWED TIME.
To save time I am willing to pay for software to do this. (as long as it is reasonably cheap)

#IF YOU ARE A PERL PROGRAMMER PLEASE READ THIS PART.
I have root access to a Postfix/FreeBSD MTA.
I am considering doing this in perl, if you have worked on a similar project let me know. I am willing to look at code even if it is not fully functional. My only experience with email via. perl is simple text sends. Also I am very time limited (See BORROWED TIME, also I am working 80+ hours per week) I think the steps would be as follows:
1 Pop3 to the server get the list of mesages
2 Get the first message
3 Read the MIME stuff (I haven't done this before)
4 Break it back down into From, Subject, Body, and Attachments (Probably Have to deal with more MIME encoding here)
5 Send it. (Probably need to pause for 30 mins or so every 50 messages to not trip a spam filter)
6 Go to step 2.
#End message to my fellow perl programmers!

Thank you,
wTinnel

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Moving email from one ISP to another.

Asked by wTinnel in Email Clients, Email Software, Perl Programming Language

Tags: email, from, move, another, isp

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